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BOUND BOOK Filed April 25, 1945 WITNESS v 5 l INVENTDRH g Joszm/ P. @035 M ATTORNEYS Patented July 8, 1947 2 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE BOUND BOOK Joseph P. Rose, Ulster County, N. Y.,; assignor to F. L. Russell Corporation, Saugertnes, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application April 25, 1945, Serial No. 590,146 2 Claims. (01. 281-25)" This invention relates to record and blank books, illustrated by stenographers notebooks, comprising a multiplicity of sheets within front and back covers and all of these parts being bound together.

The object of the invention is to produce bound books such as blank books, stenographers note= books, catalogs and other types of bound books. This invention permits such books to be readily and expeditiously bound by a series of independent binding members which, in the course of the binding of the book, are readily insertable through apertures through the covers and pages of the book, readily closed to confine the bound pages, and in which the binding members will not tear the individual sheets around the holes thereof although the pages might be turned a great number of times. The books embodying this invention will lie fiat as the pages are turned showing all of the exposed page. Inasmuch as the binding members are independent, they are capable of independent movement and adjustment as the pages are turned without tearing the pages. When the book is closed the covers will lie substantially fiat and parallel to the pages of the book which permits ready stacking or packing thereof without any great variance in the thickness of the package.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1 is a perspective of the major portion of a notebook embodying this invention, parts of the book being cut away; Fig. 2 is a cross section on the line 2--2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a plan view of the binder before it is applied to the book; Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the binder partially closed; Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the binder in its closed position; and Fig. 6 is a cross section through the closed book and through one of the binders.

In the drawings, the invention is illustrated in connection with a stenographers notebook. It was found that the invention could be best illustrated by exposing the underside of the notebook in the drawings, as appears from Figs. 1, 2 and 6.

The front cover I and the back cover 2 of the book are preferably made of paper board in order that the notebook shall be fairly substantial although in other types of books the covers may be made of lighter and more flexible material. A stack of pages 3 is positioned intermediate the two covers when the book is closed. The covers I and 2 and the pages 3 are provided with a series of aligned apertures 4 which may be round, rectangular, square or of any other configuration and are preferably spaced about three-quarters 2 of an inch apart. The binding member 5 is of T configuration and consists of the stem portion 6 and a cross-head 1. The stem 6 is preferably inserted through the aligned apertures 4 from the rear or bottom page 8 of the book while the rear cover 2 lies fiat against the front cover I. The binding members 5 are made of metal or other suitable material stamped from sheets with as little waste as possible. The forward end of the stem 6 is initially insertedthrough the aligned apertures and then bent or curved until the forward end of the stem lies close to the point of junction of the cross-head and the stem. It is not necessarythat the forward end of the stem 6, contact the said point of junction inasmuch as the individual sheetscannot slip from their position, within the binder, by reason of the crosshead'l engaging against the face of the last sheet 8 and extending beyond both side edges of the aperture 4.

The cross-head is bent rearwardly out of the are or plane of thebent or curved stem 6 and preferably the cross-head is bent to a position which will cause it to lie flat against the surface of the last page 8 of the book or, in other words, the cross-head, when the book is closed, lies in a plane parallel to the plane of the book. The crosshead is bent to its position by deforming the material at the line of junction 9 of the stem 6 and the cross-head I.

When the book is open for use, by throwing back the cover I, the binding members 5 are retained in flat position between the last page 8 and the back of the book 2, the position varying little from that shown in Fig. 6 and the members 5 retain, substantially this position as pages are successively turned from the stack and deposited over the cover. If it is desired, as in the case of a stenographers notebook, to utilize the reverse side of the pages, the book is caused to rest upon the front cover I and the back cover 2 is thrown backwards as shown in Fig, 2. The user may then write upon the top sheet 8. and when this sheet is thrown rearwardly to expose the next succeeding sheet, the binding members will be turned, independently of each other but in substantial unison, by the cross-heads engaging the top sheet and being swung, with the sheet, rearwardly against the inner face of the back cover 2.

I claim:

1. A stenographers notebook, or the like, comprising a front and back cover, a plurality of pages between the covers, each cover and each page being an individual unit, aligned holes through said covers and pages, a binder, the

binder being made of a single piece of sheet mate rial formed into a stem portion and a cross-head, one end of the stem being integral with the crosshead, the binder being of a single thickness of material throughout, the cross-head traversing said stem at one end thereof with a substantial portion of the cross-head on each side of said stem, the stem passing through said aligned holes and bent to curved configuration, the other end of the stem being free and unattached and lying in proximity to the cross-head, the cross-head, when the book is closed, lying flat against meet the pages and one of the covers, the cross-head, when the book is either open or closed, being interposed between the pages and the free end of the stem, the binder being free and unattached to the covers, and adapted to freely move in advance of a page or cover as such page or cover engages the cross-head during manipulation.

2. A stenographers notebook, orthe like, comprising a front and back cover, a plurality of pages between the covers, a series of aligned holes through said covers and pages, a binder passing through each of the aligned series of holes, each of said binders comprising a stem portion and a cross-head portion traversing said stem portion at one end thereof, with a substantial portion of the cross-head on each side of said stem, said stem being bent to curved configuration, the other end of the stem being free but lying closely to said cross-head, said cross-head being bent to one side of the plane in which said stem lies and in a plane substantially parallel to the plane of the back cover, the cross-heads lying between the back cover and the pages, the cross-heads, when the book is closed, lying flat against the sheet nearest to the cross-head, the portion of the cross-head contiguous to the aligned holes, across which it passes, lying in the path of movement of the pages and moving in advance of the page or cover engaging the same during manipulation of such page or cover, the cross-head, when the book is being closed, rotating until it presses against the back cover, the cross-head, when the book is open, lying between the free end of the stem and the sheet nearest said cross-head, whereby the 4 cross-head is always interposed between the holes in the sheet and the free end of the stem.

3. A stenographers notebook, or the like, comprising a front and back cover, a plurality of pages between the covers, each cover and each page being an individual unit, aligned holes through said covers and pages, a binder, the binder being made of a single piece of flat sheet metal and comprising a stem part and a crosshead, one end of the stem being integral with the cross-head, the binder being of a single thickness of material throughout, the cross-head traversing said stem at one end thereof with a substantial portion of the cross-head on each side of said stem, said cross-head being bent to one side of the plane in which said stem lies and in a plane substantially parallel to the plane of the back cover, the stem passing through said aligned holes and bent to curved configuration, the other end of the stem being free and unattached and lying in proximity to the cross-head, the cross-head, when the book is closed, lying flat against one of the pages and one of the covers, the cross-head, when the book is either open or closed, being interposed between the pages and the free end of the stem, the binder being free and unattached to the'covers, and'adapted to' freely move in advance of a page or cover as such pageor cover engages the cross-head during manipulation.

JOSEPH P. ROSE.

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